Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-18
WACO.
Tho Pippins Flee ana Officers Fail to
Catch Them-An Accident.

The Pippins Flee ana Officers Fail to
Catch Them-An Accident.
Special to the Gazette.
WACO, TEX, Feb. THE inquest into
the killing of DR.. W. II. Thompson has
been concluded, great mass of testimony
being taken, but nothing more specific
and to the point than Reno's testimony,
wired THE GAZETTE last night, unless it
oe that the evidence of some witnesses
tended to show hard feeling on the part
of the Pippins and Sneeds against Thomp-
son, growing out Of horse racing difficult
ties few weeks previous to the killing.
The verdict of the Jury was as follows:
''We, the jury of inquest, duly sum-
moned, empaneled and sworn 10 inquire
into the circumstances Of the death of
W. IL. Thompson, find that deceased came
to his death in McLennau county, near
the line of Limestone county, on Febru
airy Il, 1887, by means of the pistol shot
wound inflicted by Luther Pippir, and
that the said Luther Pippin was aided and
abetted in the iufiiCtion of said wound by
Buck Pippin and A. Sneed."
As was stated in last nights special
officers left here yesterday with warrants
for the arrest OF the three ab0ye-named
men, who were supposed to be lurking
near the scene Of the tragedy, twenty
miles east Of Waco. This morning they
returned, reporting the game had town.
They had been, as row transpires, doubly
warned; first, by the man Asa Sueed men
toned az an accessory to the murder in
the above verdict. Sneed, it seems, came
To Waco Tuesday, to see show the land
lay" He is stranger here, save to a few
relatives, who kept his secret He min
gied with people on the streets, feard the
the talk, and went with other sghtseers
and looked at Thompson's body, as the
embaimer was at work on it. Then he
went home and told Buck Pippin, who is
his uncle, of the state of affairs in Waco.
Pippin has another nephew, named Hard
wick, who lives in Waco. He, too, made
9 forced ride to his unCle's and gave
warning that the officers were coming.
Luther PippiD, who did the shooting, is
only seventeen years old, and is a son
instead of al brother of Buck Pippin.
The son mounted fine horse
and fed first. Buck Pippin was ust rid
ing away as the officers drew near. They
were within half mile of him, and as it
is prairie country, could see him plainly,
but unfortunately line of barbed wire
fence, several miles long, lay between
the officers and the fugitive. The posse
did not have nippers to cut the wire,
which absolutely barred their progress,
and Pippen rode rapidly away. 1t is be-
lieved he will come in and surrender
soon and give bail which he cBn readily
do, as he is rich and cannot
afford to leave bis large stock and farm
ing interests unattended to. His son,
/ it is believed, will not come in or be
caught, and 1t is the son who fired the fa
toll shot. Buck Pippin, the father, is only
accused of hitting Thompson on the head
with pistol.
Major Wiley Jones, the veteran turf
man of this city, who is well known in
Fort Worth and the leading Texas towns,
met with serious accident this morning
while experimenting some work en- an
old frame building on the west side
of the plaza. The Major had two
negro men raising the floor, aud
all at once the two walls fell. Tie
negro man ran out but the Major saw
no chance of escape and fell on mis- face
| between two floor sleepers. One side
wall fell and pinned him to the ground.
/ Mr.. Spencer Grand and others rescued
him by raising the wall. No bones were
broken but the Major received internal
| injuries which caused great pain. He
was removed to his residence, and a
physician summoned.